You know this shit won't end well.
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Protesters rip decor of new Brooklyn restaurant with bullet holes as offensive
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You know this shit won't end well.
Same here basically. After that approved 4% hike a few years back, it's been holding stable...holding on to this apartment for dear life. Especially for the included utilities.
little in life does.
They're building in Staten Island, you better believe that there's no place safe from gentrification.
bootsthecat
Banned
To those familiar with the area, will this kind of press shut them down? Or will the hipsters embrace it even more for the edginess?
ha! We moved to philly and subleted our apartment because we were like dear lord if we have to move back to NY at least we have a rent controlled apartment.
Nah, place will probably do poorly from here on out. There are a billion restaurants and bars to contend with in NYC. You do shit like this and you won't last.
Crown Heights doesn't have hipsters and kind of tired of this word getting tossed around when it comes to BK.
Crown Heights is more college kids who work in the wall street area and moved here because of the easy access to downtown manhattan.
Fucking know nothings commenting on this hood is such a bullshit move.
I hear you...I'm out of town for months at a time, but keeping this as a New York stronghold because the alternative of renting as a "newbie" is horrifying.
*Sidebar* Crown heights/Brooklynites...is it just me or have all the local corner Chinese food store prices been creeping up rapidly?
LinkAndEpona
Banned
Damn the protesting and especially calling her 'becky' is really uncalled for.
They should have just opted to eat somewhere else, use their wallets as form of protest.
They should have just opted to eat somewhere else, use their wallets as form of protest.
Seductivpancakes
Member
Yep. Soon we'll see dudes camping in front of Penn Station trying to sell tickets for thr urban safari.
No. Eating somewhere else doesn't really send any sort of message. The owner would just think that maybe the food's not right or maybe it's the location. Protesting the stupid restaurant and telling them what's wrong with it is the best way to go about this.
Something tells me you are subletting bat market rate...
If you are this is a jackass thing to do, effectively removing an affordable apartment from the marketplace.
THIS! The transformation of Franklin avenue is unreal.
tkscz
Member
Was confused at first. I thought the lady was trying to make a restaurant to appeal to black people in a black community using stereotypes, which is bad enough. Now I see she was trying to appeal to hipsters and Suburbians with it, which only makes it worse. The fuck was she thinking? I mean, ok I know what she was thinking, and I get she wasn't trying to be harmful, but come on.
Also, $15 for a 40. The gas station down the street from me has them for $2.50.
Also, $15 for a 40. The gas station down the street from me has them for $2.50.
Snowman Prophet of Doom
Member
Different sets of white people, with different socioeconomic realities and different motivations.
LegendofDragoonLives
Member
whose becky lol
CrocMother
Banned
I don't think there's anything you could write that's better than the original BYE BECKY 👋
What the fuck man.
If the price of oxtail raises i'm going to be pissed.
Like the person I quoted alluded to, Summerhill, along with The Bridal Path and Forest Hill, are ultra rich areas in Toronto. Calling it summerhill is almost the cherry on a very shortsighted cake.
Bubba_Sparks
Member
I feel like this is someone who grew up watching rap videos on MUCH and wanted to capitalize on white people's perceptions of urban New York life.
Oppo
Member
Oh I see.I thought you meant someone from Toronto wouldn't know better, which they definitely damn well ought to.
(it's "Bridle Path" btw, like a horse bridle. I thought it was "Bridal" for years too)
I always found the negative elements of the stereotype funny and odd since lots of non-black people love both things. In fact, pretty sure I ate both last week...multiple times.
That being said, I've lived in various parts of the US and there is a clear increase in fried chicken joints when you hit a neighborhood that is predominantly black. And there's nothing wrong with that. Such things are true for literally all cultures and races. Some foods are just more popular with certain people than others.
College kids who work on Wall Street? Let's just say that I never got that vibe.
It's all connected, redlining, white flight, and other racist policies greatly impacted the economy.
Nope, we Subletted at the exact amount we were paying and after 8 months moved back.
thinking with her wallet
KoopaTheCasual
Junior Member
Her name is actually fucking Becky.
Holy shit.
Holy shit.
Because it's the easiest way to vent about their frustrations to the changing neighborhood.
heh
George Oscar Bluth II
Banned
This is straight up racist.
You successfully vetoed my jackass call.
However it is not unheard of for rich rent controlled tenets (remember rent control has no relation to income) to treat the apartment as an asset, sublet at a profit and then live outside the city.
KoopaTheCasual
Junior Member
Won't someone think of the poor poor gentrifiers! )))):
fluffydelusions
Member
I had no idea this was a thing until a few days ago when I was looking for some videos of a city I was planning on visiting and found there are channels just dedicated to making videos of "hoods" As you'd expect the comment section is littered with racist comments but then you have people from other countries that find it very fascinating. Here is the particular channel I came across.
https://www.youtube.com/user/CharlieBo313
It is probably the same group of people that had time to march the day after Trump's inauguration.
Gentleman Jack
Member
That article also shows us how old the "What about black on black crime?" bullshit is:
http://gothamist.com/2017/08/25/sum...08.692288389.1503313500-1788463160.1490642846
Update: Crown Heights Bar Owner Refuses To Remove 'Bullet Hole' Wall: 'I'm Sorry I Have A Sense Of Humor
Update: Crown Heights Bar Owner Refuses To Remove 'Bullet Hole' Wall: 'I'm Sorry I Have A Sense Of Humor
Lol what a bitch.
Good, there is nothing wrong with them. If she feels her business can be ran successfully, that's all that matters.
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